The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Apple’s appeal of the contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games over App Store fees. The justices will review lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order requiring it to let developers direct consumers to cheaper payment options outside the […]
The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026. The targets were OpenAI’s ChatGPT, […]
The High Court upheld TikTok’s GDPR liability and its €530m fine, but sent the order suspending transfers to China back to the regulator for review. TikTok lost the argument that mattered most and won itself some breathing room on the rest. Ireland’s High Court has upheld the Data Protection Commission’s findings that the company breached […]
After years in which children’s online safety bills passed the Senate and then died quietly in the House, the House moved first this time, and immediately reopened the argument that has stalled the effort for half a decade. On Monday it passed a sweeping youth online safety package by 267 to 117, the first time […]
Britain’s competition regulator has decided that the cheapest place to buy a digital subscription should not be the one place an app is forbidden from mentioning. On Tuesday the Competition and Markets Authority proposed allowing UK app developers to steer users toward payment options outside Apple and Google’s stores, a change aimed squarely at the […]
Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a €580mn contract for the Munich AI firm. The software would link fighters, drones, satellites and sensors, according to documents seen by Politico. The deal salvages something from the wreckage of Europe’s […]
Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office raided Super Micro Computer’s local office on Monday, widening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China through the company’s servers. The raid also targeted the residences of six individuals and the sites of two other affiliated companies, according to Bloomberg. Super Micro shares fell more than […]
Washington lobbying firms have been quietly dropping Alibaba and Tencent as clients ahead of a new Pentagon rule that takes effect on Tuesday. According to Bloomberg, Alibaba has lost five lobbying firms and Tencent has lost four since the Defense Department expanded its list of Chinese military companies earlier this month. The departures leave two […]
California has struck a deal with Anthropic that gives all state agencies and local governments access to Claude at half price. The agreement, announced by Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday, makes Claude the first AI productivity tool available statewide through the California Department of Technology’s shared services portal. Anthropic will also provide free workforce training […]
Most people call them automated licence plate readers, or ALPRs. They sit beside roads and log every car that passes. Flock Safety dominates the market. Engadget reports that Flock makes the vast majority of the 100,000-plus readers now blanketing the US. Calling them licence plate readers undersells them. Reading plates is the main job, but […]
